Paper, 'A relacon [relation] of a man at Bridgewater having a hole in his gutts' by unknown author
Reference number: CLP/12i/21
Date: 1669
Description
Paper relating the story of a man in Bridgewater [Bridgwater, Somserset] who had periodic fits of abdominal pain and severe constipation. Remedies, including swallowing musket bullets and consuming a powder, were not successful. The man developed a hole in his abdomen, and some time after voided the bullets from his body. The bullets were subsequently sent to the Royal Society.
Subject: Medicine
Read to the Royal Society on 9 December 1669.
- Reference number
- CLP/12i/21
- Earliest possible date
- 1669
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Paper, 'A relacon [relation] of a man at Bridgewater having a hole in his gutts' by unknown author, 1669, CLP/12i/21, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_12i_21/paper-a-relacon-relation-of-a-man-at-bridgewater-having-a-hole-in-his-gutts-by-unknown-author, accessed on 15 May 2025
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